RIP John Madden

[OrangeDW]

 

[Chip]

Madden and Summerall did a lot of Giants games over the years. They were the best.

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I was thinking about him on Thanksgiving during the Cowboys game, and had googled to see how old he was. I loved the turkey leg and then the turducken obsession! He was a staple of that holiday for so many years.

I also wanted my own Madden bus.

 

[OrangeDW]

No better duo for a big game. Even the intros and pregame talk were great.

 

[SWC75]

"Don't worry about the horse being blind...just load the wagon."

 

[SWC75]

And that's why they won the Super Bowl. They proved in that regular season game that they could play with the Patriots and the went into the Super Bowl planning to win that game.

 

[OrangeDW]

When I was a little kid the Giants got Madden so often that I thought he was the Giants commentator…like Vin Scully for the Dodgers and Chick Hearn for the Lakers. Lol.

 

[JarHeadJim]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">John Madden breaking down a turkey. One of a kind.<a href="https://t.co/nNd4bSwqvM">pic.twitter.com/nNd4bSwqvM</a></p>&mdash; The Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) <a href="">December 29, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[OburgOrange]

I think its pretty obvious who gets the cover of next year's madden game.

 

[MSOrange]

 

[orange79]

nycfan

 

[Forza Azzurri]

We DVR'd this Xmas day and watched it Monday night.

Must see TV.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[Eric15]

He never took himself seriously, but he took his job incredibly seriously.

Well said. I feel like that's one of the best compliments you can give any person.

 

[SWC75]

John out-lived the Cal Poly plane crash by 61 years, although it's interesting that that was not the cause of his fear of flying.

John Madden - Wikipedia

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[MSOrange]

I'm always interested in reading old news articles to see how events were reported at the time they happened. This is an article when Madden retired from coaching at 42. He insisted at the time that he was never going to coach again and that seems hard to believe at 42. But obviously it turned out to be true and who would have guessed he would turn into the most famous football broadcaster ever.

Madden, Citing Health, Resigns as Coach of Raiders (Published 1979)

John Madden resigns as coach; por (M)

www.nytimes.com

 

[syrBossHogg]

What a legacy he left. RIP

Kinda ridiculous in retrospect he didn't get the call to the HOF for 25 years